On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:47:03PM +1100, Alister Waller wrote:
> I have a companies file that contains RR and XX
>
> What I want is for the script to process the export for each company in the
> companies file and check to see if that companies export flag is set to YES,
> if so do the export, if not then miss it out.
>
> I have an example below:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> RRexportflag=yes
> XXexportflag=no
>
> for i in `cat companies`
> do
>
> if [ $iexportflag = "yes" ] ; then
>
> ...do some exporting ...
>
> fi
> done
eval is what you are looking for (see other answers).
can i suggest changing your code to use something like "read" instead:
have a companies file that contains RR and XX and some flags for each
(lines like: XX yes)
while read company export; do
echo "doing $company"
if [ $export = yes ]; then
.. do some exporting
fi
done < companies
you can expand the companies file (and arguments to "read") to cope with
extra per-company options.
"read" reads from stdin, hence the while loop being redirected from
the companies file. see the section on read in the sh manpage.
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- Gus
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